Wind and Earthquake Maps
Wind and Earthquake Maps
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ASCE Standard "Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures" have maps for the United States that show Basic Wind Speeds and Earthquake Zones. I am looking for similar maps on a world wide basis.






RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
Visited your suggested website, wonderful for the US. Unfortunately, there are no maps/data outside the US/Canada.
Thanks for site for us American engineers,
Imagineer
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
Gulf of Mexico
Eastern side of: Mexico, Central America, and South America
North Sea
Coast of: Congo, Angola, Gabon, and Nigeria
Middle East, and Persian Gulf
Bay of Bengal, South China Sea, and Yellow Sea
Sometimes we have very specific design criteria. At other times specific criteria is not available.
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
for Australia, you'll find the information in Australian Standards AS 1170.2 - Wind loads and AS 1170.4 - Earthquake loads.
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
Try as I might I couldn't find a way to get NAVFAC DM-2 either ordering a copy or finding online. I, however, did find a site in which everyone might be interested. The US Army Corps of Engineers has a bunch of their technical manuals online at:
www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/armytm/
TM5-809-10, "Seismic Design for Buildings" (available online) has coefficents for places around the world.
Imagineer
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
Appendix Chaper 16, page 2-401
Division III - Seismic Zone Tabulation Section 1653 - For areas outside of the US
List Countries & Seismic Zone (0,1,2A,2B,3,4)
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
Journal of the Waterways, Harbors and Coastal Engineering Division
Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers
February, 1973, pp 1-17
Distributions of Extreme Winds Over Oceans
by Herbert C. S. Thom
February, 1974, p 56
Errata to original article
RE: Wind and Earthquake Maps
I haven't checked it for several years but the Government Bookstore in Philadelphia stocks and sells literally thousands of GPO documents, including the Navy DM's. There must be similar Government Bookstores in all major US cities.